Lesson 1: Assets

Concerns with Information Assets

Hardware and software assets exist to create, manipulate, store, retrieve, and destroy information assets. Generally speaking, concerns to information assets are a derivative of concerns an organization might have about its hardware and software assets.

Returning to our discussion on trust, organizations and individuals need to be able to determine if a given piece of data is accurate, if sets of data and information are accurate, and if the entire information/knowledge bank within the organization is accurate.

Due to the gravity of and need for information security, information security practitioners have developed a set of goals to alleviate concerns with information assets. You will learn about these goals in lesson three.